National Veterans Legal Services Program

FILE - In this April 28, 2011, photo, an Afghan National Army pickup truck passes parked U.S. armored military vehicles, as smoke rises from a fire in a trash burn pit at Forward Operating Base Caferetta Nawzad, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan. The House is poised to pass legislation that would dramatically boost health care services and disability benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Simon Klingert, File)

Veterans and their supports push for burn pit related relief

Burn pits, they’re the agent orange of the most recent generation of veterans. Veterans who were exposed to the open junk incinerators in Iraq and Afghanistan…

Veterans Affairs

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Congress taps brakes on DoD project to reform IT funding

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Those military burn pit veterans have help in representing their claims

Veterans Affairs

Legal group files lawsuit challenging disability retirement for Sailors and Marines

Benefits

Judges wooden gavel resting on a law book in a courtroom conceptual of judgements, crime, punishment, and justice

Federal judiciary can’t use PACER as IT slush fund, appeals court rules

Agency Oversight

Trump grants clemency to pair of former federal players

Federal Newscast

FILE - This March 27, 2008, aerial file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. A Federal court has ordered the Pentagon to temporarily halt work with Microsoft on its $10 billion military cloud contract, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, after Amazon sued alleging that President Donald Trump's bias against the company hurt its chances to win the project. Amazon requested the court issue the injunction last month. Both the documents requesting the block and the judge's decision to issue the temporary injunction are sealed by the court. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Veterans group: Pentagon broke agreement to reopen database

Defense

Presidential candidate lays out plan to reshape federal workforce

Federal Newscast

Veterans legal services group sues over removal of public troop records

Federal Drive

Dispute between some veterans and VA over health care continues

Federal Drive

VA hit with lawsuit claiming 1,000s of vets never received medical reimbursements

Federal Drive

Bart Stichman: New app helps veterans discern eligibility for benefits

It’s not always easy for an individual veteran to figure out which service he or she may be eligible for. Now, there’s an app for that

Federal Drive

David Sonenshine: How veterans can get a discharge upgrade

Bad paper means veterans can’t get help from the Veterans Affairs Department. Now a law firm is helping them with obtaining a discharge upgrade.

Federal Drive

DoD fix to repay improperly withheld taxes from some veterans’ disability payments

Federal Drive

Defense legislation signed into law by President Barack Obama in December will reverse decades-old mistake of tax withholding from veterans with combat-related disabilities.